Some students choose to pursue minors (such as a Math minor, for example), or take other additional classes. This is a place to discuss which classes might be useful to take and possibly coordinate when to take them, since taking classes as a group provides a support system.
PHY499A: Physics professor Matt Povich: "I will pilot a new, computer-based activity course (PHY 499A) on Observational Astronomy and Data Analysis in Spring Quarter. After semester conversion, an expanded version of this course will become a regular catalog offering. Because the course emphasizes image processing, data analysis, and computer programming, it could be of interest to students from various Science majors (for example, CS or Geological Sciences majors). Please circulate the attached flyer to any students you know who might want to register for this course."
PHY409: Several graduate and undergraduate Geology students have taken the Computational Physics class (PHY 409), usually taught by Alex Small. Their experience was generally very positive, so this would be a good class to consider taking to learn about algorithms in Physics and scientific programming. This class has used Python and Matlab, which are both useful in scientific programming. Graduate students have received credit for this class in the past. The class will be taught in the Fall of 2017 and probably will continue to be taught every year.
CE538: Another potential graduate level course is CE 538, Rock Mechanics. The only pre-requisites for the course are graduate standing, and a calculus-based math level (not multi-variable calculus). The professor for the class, M. Ronald Yeung, has enjoyed having students from the Geology Department in the past. The class may be taught again in the Fall of 2018 or 2019.
A Remote Sensing class has been taught in Environmental Biology by Erin Questad, and will be taught again in Spring 2018. "It will be a BIO 575 (3 units) and BIO 542L (1 or 2 units) combination. I am going to try to teach it stacked all in one day so we can be out in the field most of the time. A project with JPL using hyperspectral imagery to map vegetation got funded! A lot of the class will focus on ground-truthing their data and analyzing the maps they produce for us."
Introduction to Imaging in Geodesy class will be taught by JPL scientist Andrea Donellan in Fall 2018.
The CS299 Python class will be taught again in Winter 2018 (for undergrad credit only, substitution for other CS class in the emphasis). The CS chair provides the following information: We have two new courses in Python: · CS 299 Python for Beginners o no prior programming experience required o prerequisites: MAT 105 and MAT 106 with grade of C or better · CS 299 Python for Programmers o prerequisite: CS 141 (Java) or CS 128 (C++) with a grade of C or better Instructional mode is face-to-face, lecture and problem solving, not group study. Please take the appropriate one depending on your programming background.
Currently planned schedule of CPP Geophysics classes:
GSC434/L: Shallow Subsurface Geophysics (Winter 2019), may have two lab sections
This is the current tentative list of department classes for the upcoming year (last updated May 2017).
PHY499A: Physics professor Matt Povich: "I will pilot a new, computer-based activity course (PHY 499A) on Observational Astronomy and Data Analysis in Spring Quarter. After semester conversion, an expanded version of this course will become a regular catalog offering. Because the course emphasizes image processing, data analysis, and computer programming, it could be of interest to students from various Science majors (for example, CS or Geological Sciences majors). Please circulate the attached flyer to any students you know who might want to register for this course."
PHY409: Several graduate and undergraduate Geology students have taken the Computational Physics class (PHY 409), usually taught by Alex Small. Their experience was generally very positive, so this would be a good class to consider taking to learn about algorithms in Physics and scientific programming. This class has used Python and Matlab, which are both useful in scientific programming. Graduate students have received credit for this class in the past. The class will be taught in the Fall of 2017 and probably will continue to be taught every year.
CE538: Another potential graduate level course is CE 538, Rock Mechanics. The only pre-requisites for the course are graduate standing, and a calculus-based math level (not multi-variable calculus). The professor for the class, M. Ronald Yeung, has enjoyed having students from the Geology Department in the past. The class may be taught again in the Fall of 2018 or 2019.
A Remote Sensing class has been taught in Environmental Biology by Erin Questad, and will be taught again in Spring 2018. "It will be a BIO 575 (3 units) and BIO 542L (1 or 2 units) combination. I am going to try to teach it stacked all in one day so we can be out in the field most of the time. A project with JPL using hyperspectral imagery to map vegetation got funded! A lot of the class will focus on ground-truthing their data and analyzing the maps they produce for us."
Introduction to Imaging in Geodesy class will be taught by JPL scientist Andrea Donellan in Fall 2018.
The CS299 Python class will be taught again in Winter 2018 (for undergrad credit only, substitution for other CS class in the emphasis). The CS chair provides the following information:
We have two new courses in Python:
· CS 299 Python for Beginners
o no prior programming experience required
o prerequisites: MAT 105 and MAT 106 with grade of C or better
· CS 299 Python for Programmers
o prerequisite: CS 141 (Java) or CS 128 (C++) with a grade of C or better
Instructional mode is face-to-face, lecture and problem solving, not group study. Please take the appropriate one depending on your programming background.
Currently planned schedule of CPP Geophysics classes: